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What was foolish about the purchase? Just the fact that repairs had to be done? It looks like a nice, quaint house.
by orf 10y ago
What was foolish about the purchase? Just the fact that repairs had to be done? It looks like a nice, quaint house.
- david-given 10y agoListed buildings are money pits. It's not just that you've bought a house that's older than most countries, and is therefore wearing out in so many ways, it's that you have to do the repairs using original techniques and materials whereever possible, and they will check up --- you need to get consent for modifications, in advance, backed up by big penalties, including massive fines and imprisonment. You're limited on modifications, too. So even something as simple as installing double glazing can be fraught. Owning a listed building is really reserved for people with huge amounts of money whose idea of a good time is filling out government forms. http://www.lewes.gov.uk/Files/plan_listed_buildings_owners_guide.pdf http://www.lewes.gov.uk/Files/plan_listed_buildings_owners_g...
- pmiller2 10y agoThanks for this post. Being American, I didn't even realize that "listed building" meant "historical building." I thought it referred to the building being listed for sale.
- logfromblammo 10y agoWe'd likely call it a "registered building"--referring to a registry of historical buildings--as "listing" a building is putting it up for sale and advertising on the MLS, the Multiple Listing Service.
- stuaxo 10y agoHere's the long wikipedia entry on listed buildings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_building https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_building